It’s fucking great. And I earned every penny of it starting with day labor with bums, logging (got scars to prove it), construction (back is permanently fucked), low-end fisheries jobs, and putting myself through grad school working in a fish market. The Czech Republic is now known as Czechia FYI. If I thought for one…

The only question really remaining for me is where to move to. I’ve been expecting this ending since the beginning and doing some planning. Here’s my final four picks: Romania; Czechia; Panama; or New Zealand. (Canada’s too cold and where it’s not, it’s too rainy)

I don’t understand how it’s even remotely legal to take my tax payer money and pay some truth-challenged morons to send their kid to a Jesus brain-washing school. I’m at a loss. Covington... Covington anyone?

Homer Sarasohn. No Flooze or Beanz, ungreying me will suffice.

Agreed, pretty clearly. I just leave the 20% tip when I write off a restaurant to ease my conscience. It’s a small price to pay.

Nixon’s crimes seem quaint now. At least he did some things for the environment. 

Good policy. I sold the one rental I had because people kept begging me to have pets. They’d move in knowing full well pets were prohibited then whine about it every month until their lease was up. 

Definitely with the pork/beef combo. Learned that from a Romanian. Not a place exactly known for its cuisine, but there you have it. 

Once a restaurant has done you wrong you’re done: don’t go back; don’t call; don’t whimper. Leave your 20% regardless, might not be the server’s fault. Restaurants come and go. Let them go. I’ve found that a large percentage of restaurants I’ve written off go under within the year. It’s not just you that got the bad…

Realtors hate me. First thing I do when they take me to a house is to go look over the back and side fences for a dog. If there’s a dog out I don’t even bother to go look in the house. I’ve lived next door to barky dogs way too many times, not having it anymore. If there’s no dog, I’ll look in the house. If I like it…

“But her prosecutions.” Here we go again. Commenters might also want to read this before making up their minds about Kamala, she was facing an uphill battle in hostile territory- https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stuck-in-the-70s-Final-Report.pdf

The GOP handed Obama a shit sandwich and he saved the US economy and probably the world from a devastating recession. I’ll never forget one of those first interviews he did where he basically laughed (at the absurdity of it all) that he never expected to win and have to save to the world. He thought he’d just have to…

Matters are worse if it is equipped with a large capacity mag

Jesus F. Cork, why is this discussion even necessary? You can drive all over the South Island of New Zealand or the wine country south of Adelaide all the way to Sydney and never encounter cork one. I only buy screw-tops. Sure, if I could afford 35 year-old Bordeaux wines I’d side with CorkLandia. Screw-tops are the…

If this was the March Madness of picking out the Tomato you’d surely make the Round of Four. 

What happens? As always- white male fantasies ensue: she goes to prison; bunks with a lesbian; develops feelings; they send out Xmas cards together from Hallmark tinged with LGBTQ remarques; Hallmark repents and comes out with a line of LGBTQ cards. In other words, nothing happens. Nothing. Martha Stewart’s martyrdom…

He should have trade-marked his name back in the 90s. 

Idaho is actually the dairy state now, exceeding Wisconsin in cheese production, let alone the Chobani yogurt that Hamilton Nolan* so detests. All the dairy farmers from states that actually enforce environmental laws moved to Idaho because freedom.

Idaho is the Appalachia of the west. Take a few 40s and wake up in West Virginia, you wouldn’t know the difference except for the foliage. Blaine County, home to $un Valley, is the only true-blue county (maybe Latah too). Ada County (Boise) has confined most of its democrats to an internment camp full of rotting old…

The irony of accepting a pardon from Trump is that he’d immediately be transferred to a cell on Riker’s Island to await trial. He would be better off staying in federal custody and being transported to Manhattan for pre-trial proceedings.